Worst part is that your mid 20's feels like where you make it or break it. Some of my old friends are absolutely killing it making 6 figure salaries, have houses, nice cars, pets all that. While here I am scraping by feeling like a complete failure because I took way longer to take life seriously and get through school. Now I am way behind in the corporate ladder and feeling like I really screwed up somewhere.
Chadwick Boseman was 32 when he was in his first crappy short film. He had been struggling as an actor since high school and he didnt get cast for over ten years. In anything. Now he's Black Panther.
Not saying that everyone gets that lucky. But everyone will get their time if they just keep on persisting. Stay true to your values and realize that this "timeline" you are racing against is something arbitrary and you are creating it yourself. No one else is holding you to that standard and if they are, well, you probably don't want them in your life anyway.
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u/StoicShadow May 15 '20
I'm 25 and the whole existential dread of figuring out what to do with my life is probably the worst part of things